Mainz-Bretzenheim

Bretzenheim ; district of Mainz
Coordinates	49 ° 58 ′ 50 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 30" E Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 50 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 30" E
height	121 m above sea level NHN
surface	10.651 km²
Residents	19,933 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	1871 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners	14.8% (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation	Jan. 1, 1930
Post Code	55128
prefix	06131
; Administration address	At the Wied 2 ; 55128 Mainz
Website	www.mainz.de
politics
Head of town	Claudia Siebner ( CDU )
	Allocation of seats (local advisory board)
	4th 1 3 4th 1 4th 1 3 4th 1 ;
Transport links
tram	MVG lines 51, 52, 53, 59
bus	MVG lines 57, 70, 74, 71, 90, MVG / ORN joint line 75, ORN lines 650, 652

Entrance from Mainz-Bretzenheim on the K 1 coming from the west

Entrance to Mainz-Bretzenheim coming from the south

Bretzenheim is a district of the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz . Bretzenheim was incorporated into Mainz on January 1, 1930 by Karl Külb and is now the fourth largest district of Mainz with around 20,000 inhabitants after Neustadt (around 29,000), Gonsenheim (around 25,000) and Upper Town (around 22,000). The district has different, individual residential areas. With the old town center, at least in Alt-Bretzenheim, a village character has been preserved. The area around the Südring, on the other hand, is characterized by a high proportion of foreigners and high-rise buildings. In the south-west, modern residential areas with single and multi-family houses emerged. Bretzenheim is particularly popular as a place to live with students, as it is directly adjacent to the university campus.

Neighboring districts

The following districts of Mainz border Bretzenheim in a clockwise direction:

in the north (to a small extent) Mainz-Hartenberg-Münchfeld , in the north-east Mainz-Oberstadt , in the south-east Mainz-Hechtsheim , in the south-west Mainz-Marienborn and Mainz-Lerchenberg , in the west Mainz-Drais and in the north-west Mainz-Gonsenheim .

history

Bretzenheim is one of the oldest places in the Mainz area. Finds from prehistoric, Roman and Franconian times prove that the area of today's Mainz district around the sources and the upper reaches of the Zaybach was settled very early.

In 235 the Roman emperor Severus Alexander was murdered by insurgent soldiers near Mogontiacum (Mainz), the capital of Upper Germany, where his headquarters were at that time. The historian Aurelius Victor names a vicus Britanniae as the place of death, which in research literature is often identified with Bretzenheim. If this assumption is correct, it is the oldest evidence from Bretzenheim; the name is then derived from the British settling there. Some documents from the 8th and 9th centuries mention the name of the Franconian village: Brittinheim , Brizzenheim u. In the Middle Ages, Bretzenheim is first attested in a document from January 18, 752 as villa nominata Prittonorum .

The equation of the ancient vicus Britanniae with Bretzenheim is controversial in research. The opponents of this hypothesis argue archaeologically; they deny the existence of an ancient settlement densification , which could be called vicus , in Bretzenheim. According to their opinion, villa Prittonorum is a language game of a learned writer and the place name is actually derived from the personal name Bretzo . According to this, a man named Bretzo played an important role in the early days of the Frankish settlement.

On January 7, 1266, Friedrich, the praeceptor of the Lazarus Order in Germany, and Hertwig, the Komtur zu Megersheim (between Bauschheim and Königstädten , districts of the city of Rüsselsheim ) sold all of the order's possessions in and near Bretzenheim to the Dalheim monastery ( Dalen nunnery at Mainz ). The Dalheim Monastery thus became the largest landowner in town. From then on, the abbess in Bretzenheim could have the court speak, issue ordinances and raise taxes. The Bretzenheimers were serfs of the monastery and obliged to do labor. The reign of the monastery lasted several centuries and only ended in the course of the revolutionary wars against France . In 1797 Bretzenheim, along with the left bank of the Rhine, became French, after the defeat of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it became Hessian .

In 1930 Bretzenheim was incorporated into Mainz together with Weisenau and the towns of Bischofsheim , Ginsheim and Gustavsburg on the right bank of the Rhine .

Viticulture in Bretzenheim

The only two vineyards in Mainz-Bretzenheim

The oldest known document about viticulture in Mainz reports on a donation:

«This royal Dominialhof in Dalheim and the goods belonging to it received the St. Maximin Abbey near Trier through a royal donation . Their possessions in the village of Bretzenheim are evidenced by the Fulders donations, in which it says for the year 754: "I am giving Adalbrecht another vineyard in front of the walls of the city of Mainz in the 'village of Brezzenheim', whose vineyards are on one side St. Maximin"

from History of the City of Mainz by Karl Anton Schaab , second volume, 1844.

Currently, there are only two managed vineyards located49.96751 8.216856 in Mainz-Bretzenheim, they belong to viticulture law Großlage St. Alban and single vineyard Hechtsheimer Kirchenstück .

politics

Local Advisory Board and Mayor

Local council election 2019

Turnout: 67.5%

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Gains and losses

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In 2019 elected town council five parties continue to be represented. The strongest parliamentary groups are the Greens and the CDU with four seats each, followed by the SPD with three seats. The ÖDP and FDP are also represented, each with one seat. After winning the runoff election on June 16, 2019, Claudia Siebner (CDU), who replaced her party colleague Wolfram Erdmann in the previous election in 2014, remains the mayor.

State politics

Mainz-Bretzenheim is part of the Mainz II constituency . In the state elections in 2016 , Doris Ahnen (SPD) won the direct mandate here.

coat of arms

An abbess of Dalheim Monastery had three rings in her family coat of arms , which she also used to seal her personal possessions and documents. These rings were used as local coats of arms until the 18th century. From around 1790 the pretzel appears for the first time in the local coat of arms. It was probably assumed at the time that Bretzenheim and the pretzel would go well together. It was not until 1920 that today's Mainz local coats of arms emerged.

The Bretzenheim pretzel coat of arms does not come from the abbess Anna von Reiffenberg, who headed the Dalheim monastery during the construction of the town hall (1575) and the revision of the Bretzenheim Weistum (1578), but from the Bretzenheim court seal, which was already in 1579 on the inventory letter of Cuntz Müller for a Presence good with a clearly recognizable pretzel is used. This court seal was used continuously until 1798 (capture of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine by the French). In the time when the Bretzenheimers had a mayor, the pretzel did not appear at all, only in the short period of the Provisional Administration (1814–1816) did a pretzel appear again in the municipal stamp. After that, Bretzenheim became a grand ducal parish - again without a pretzel, but with a crown and a Hessian lion.

flag

Flag of Mainz-Bretzenheim

For the technical description, the city of Mainz currently uses the following RAL color values , with their correspondence in the Pantone and CMYK system for word and image trademarks ("logos") and RGB for online media:

colour	RAL	Pantone	CMYK	RGB (hex and color)
black	NONE - 0A 0A 0D	Black C	0-0-0-100	26 23 27
yellow	NONE - FF DC 00	7405 C	0-25-100-0	253 196 0
blue	NONE - 00 78 BB	285 C	85-50-0-0	15 114 180

The town hall in Bretzenheim

Culture and sights

Mainz-Bretzenheim is home to a total of five monument zones , including the Alte Ziegelei monument zone , as well as several individual monuments. A detailed overview can be found under List of cultural monuments in Mainz-Bretzenheim .

Educational institutions

There are the following schools in Mainz-Bretzenheim:

Primary schools:

Erich Kästner School (EKS)
Heinrich Mumbächer School (HMS)
Elementary school "An den Römersteinen"
Integrated comprehensive school (IGS) , elite football school

Moreover, lies just north of Bretzenheim a location of the University of Mainz and east, adjoining the grounds of the University .

District AG

Hot line for Bretzenheim
The district AG has existed as a forum for citizen participation since 1998. It is independent of administration and parties, and works together with the mayor, the local advisory council, associations, institutions and parishes. Problems are addressed in several groups, suggestions for improvement are developed and initiatives and actors are coordinated.

Lindenmühle natural show garden

Lindenmühle natural show garden

In voluntary work, a nature show garden with exclusively native plants has been created on Mühlweg. The facility is accessible at any time. It is intended to encourage fellow citizens to give more native wild plants space in gardens and green spaces and thus to make a contribution to the preservation of plant diversity. In December 2005, the “Natural Green” working group received a nature conservation award for the project. In September 2009 the nature show garden was awarded an environmental prize. The motto of the competition was: The best ideas for a sustainable Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2012 the show garden became the UN Decade Project on Biological Diversity.

societies

In March 1969, TSG 1846 Mainz-Bretzenheim invited the GDR women's gymnastics team to show gymnastics in Mainz and triggered a scandal with the recognition of the GDR symbols

Mainz-Bretzenheim has a diverse club life. For example, the Association of Brickwork Friends Mainz was founded in 1985 with the aim of maintaining the old brickworks as a leisure and educational center. The first football team of TSG 1846 Mainz-Bretzenheim currently plays (2019/20 season) in the regional league of the Southwest German Football Association . Other sports clubs in the district are SV Bretzenheim 1912 and DJK Moguntia Bretzenheim .

In 1946, members of the Catholic youth founded the Carnival Association CKV Bretzenheim , which was originally rooted in the religious Carnival and is now recognized throughout the Mainz Carnival . Other carnival clubs are the Jakobiner Bretzenheim, founded in 1973, and the Bretzenummer Schnattergänsjer, which has only been in existence since 2013 .

Football stadium

On May 4, 2009 the foundation stone for today's Opel Arena was laid on the Bretzenheim district. Since the Bundesliga season 2011/12 denies 1. FSV Mainz 05 where its home games. The club's training center has remained in the Bruchweg Stadium , which is located in the Hartenberg-Münchfeld district .

Economy and Infrastructure

Bretzenheim has an extensive industrial area in the southeast, right in the triangle of the Autobahn 60, A 63 and Bundesstraße 40. Hornbach and the furniture store Poco , among others, have their headquarters there. One of the largest shopping centers in the city, the Gutenberg , is also located in the industrial area -Center.

An attempt to expand by the Carrefour Group to Mainz in 1977 failed.

Road connection

Transportation

Bretzenheim is integrated into the public transport network of the city of Mainz through several MVG bus and tram lines . There are direct bus connections to the two largest train stations in Mainz, the main train station and the Roman theater . Since December 2016, the new tram route, known as the Mainzelbahn project, has also run through the local district and thus connects Bretzenheim with the university , the university campus and the Marienborn and Lerchenberg districts. With the timetable change on December 15, 2019, a direct connection was established between Bretzenheim and Mainz-Hechtsheim via the A 60; previously the only direct connection (line 52) ran via the main station and the city center.

Personalities

Bretzenheim's sons and daughters

Alfred Mumbächer (1888–1953), landscape painter
Franziska Reichenbacher (* 1967) lived in Bretzenheim for the first six years

Personalities who have worked on site

Josef Hofmann (1927–2016), lawyer and politician, worked as a lawyer in Bretzenheim
Walter Konrad (1935–2019), lawyer, media manager and local politician, lived in Bretzenheim
Claudia Wildhardt (* 1968), volleyball player, played for TSG Mainz-Bretzenheim for several years

literature

Claus Wolf: The districts of Mainz. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-361-6 .
Association for local history Bretzenheim and Zahlbach: 1250 years Bretzenheim (= Bretzenheim contributions to history. Issue 2). Mainz 2002.

Web links

Commons : Mainz-Bretzenheim - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ See the detailed favorable discussions with compilation and discussion of the older literature in Leonhard Schumacher: Römische Kaiser in Mainz , Bochum 1982, pp. 89–92; see. Auguste Jardé: Etudes critiques sur la vie et le règne de Sévère Alexandre , Paris 1925, p. 85 and note 4, p. 86, note 1.

^ Ronald Knöchlein: Bretzenheim - Zahlbach - Dalheim. The archaeological evidence up to the Franconian period , Mainz 2009, p. 28 and note 21 (with references) and p. 45.

^ Heinrich Eduard Scriba: The regests of the documents printed up to now on the state and local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Third section: containing the registers of the province of Rheinhessen. Publishing house of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Darmstadt, 1851. Online at Google Books p. 113.

↑ Local council election 2019 - Mainz.de. PDF. 7.0 GB. Retrieved July 21, 2019

↑ result runoff 2019 Bretzenheim - Mainz.de. Retrieved July 21, 2019

↑ Claudia Siebner is a direct candidate , Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, November 20, 2013

↑ Members by constituency , website of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament

↑ The specified RGB color values correspond to the official sRGB values of the RAL colors. In addition, the official CIE xyY values are shown, converted into sRGB with absolute colorimetric rendering intent ; the yellow hue had to be slightly adapted to the sRGB gamut . Since the corporate design for online content is defined differently (see RGB colors on the right), this is only to be understood as a guide to the appearance of printed flags.